On 6/23/2025 3:46 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:32:05 +0530 Shivank Garg <shivankg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__filemap_get_folio);
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__filemap_get_folio_mpol);
>>>
>>> static inline struct folio *find_get_entry(struct xa_state *xas, pgoff_t max,
>>> xa_mark_t mark)
>>> _
>>>
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> Thank you for addressing this.
>>
>> If you don’t mind me asking,
>> I was curious why we used EXPORT_SYMBOL instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL here.
>> I had previously received feedback recommending the use of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
>> to better align with the kernel’s licensing philosophy, which made sense to me.
>
> Making this _GPL would effectively switch __filemap_get_folio() from
> non-GPL to GPL. Leaving it at non-GPL is less disruptive and Matthew's
> patch did not have the intention of changing licensing.
>
> Also,
>
> hp2:/usr/src/25> grep "EXPORT_SYMBOL(" mm/filemap.c|wc -l
> 48
> hp2:/usr/src/25> grep "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(" mm/filemap.c|wc -l
> 9
>
>
Thank you for the explanation.
This makes sense to me.
Reviewed-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@xxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Shivank
